Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without e...
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.
Writing has the power of permanence.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic.
I attract Dragons, something of a gift.
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
As she’d walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she’d yearned for every night.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
All art is quite useless.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
It's ugly, but is it art?
Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
